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In the beginning of Railroad Turnbridge, Serra frames the span of landscape visible through the railroad bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. The camera remains stationary, while the bridge rotates 360 degrees, creating an illusion of what is standing still and what is moving....
Employing archival film clips and new video, Atlas' self-described "video montage" is a portrayal of filmmaker/choreographer Yvonne Rainer. While an extended interview with Rainer runs throughout the piece, four "performers" enact and re-enact the interview. Atlas undermines genre conventions, shuffling and superimposing image and voice tracks to yield a video palimpsest of theatricality and ambiguity.
Rare Performance Documents 1961-1994 Volume 1: Paik-Moorman Collaborations
Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik
1965-73, compiled 2000, 25:08 min, b&w and color, sound
Newly restored, rare performance material from Nam June Paik's personal archives is featured in this remarkable volume. These documents trace the evolution of Paik's eclectic performance work over three decades. Volume 1 includes documentation of his emblematic collaborative pieces with Charlotte Moorman, including TV Bed, TV Cello, and TV Bra. These works are performed at venues that include the Howard Wise Gallery, the Everson Museum (where David Ross joins Moorman on the TV Bed), and the WGBH television studio.
Rare Performance Documents 1961-1994 Volume 2
Nam June Paik
1961-94, compiled 2000, 18:37 min, b&w and color, sound
Newly restored, rare performance material from Nam June Paik's personal archives is featured in this remarkable volume. These documents trace the evolution of Paik's eclectic performance work over three decades, from a haunting, silent 1961 film (Hand and Face) to a 1994 tribute to John Cage at the Kitchen in New York. Volume 2 features rare documents of performances ranging from the iconic Violin Dragging (1975), to the pioneering turntable composition Fluxus Sonata and a 1991 collaboration with the hard-core band Bad Brains.
